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Stupid things you've overheard in public

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Originally posted by: mofoe2001
I was at home depot the other day looking for a fuse. I had a question for the electrical guy working there, I found him in front of the fuses with another person and walked into the guy asking the employee, what does mA (milliamps) stand for. and the employee told him megahertz. I understand not many people know what ma stood for, but to make up shit? that deserves to be loled at.
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em-ay is pretty damn close to em-aych. he could have not heard the guy correctly. id have made the guy clarify, telling him i didnt hear.


i dont recall any of the dumb things ive heard (and said) in public, wish i could.
 
Originally posted by: Dumac
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Yea, sushi was orginally fast food, that's great. Onigiri is regarded as the Japanese version of a sandwhich, and are also quick and easy to make, can be easily transported, and are sold in convience stores as a quick and easy meal.
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As is sushi....😕

I don't know why you think onigiri is so much easier to make than a handroll. I'd say they are about the same.

Either way, this is getting way off topic, so I'm done talking about sushi in this thread.
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I never said it was easier to make, I'm saying it is widely regarded as the Japanese sandwhich. It's design and packaging is more similar to a sandwhich. But, we can agree to disagree.

Anyway, they have sandwhiches in Japan, so maybe we can agree that the Tonkatsu sandwhich is the real Japanese sandwhich.
 
Two guys at a store discussing a "Big Dawg" tee-shirt.

One guy is pointing to it telling his friend, "See, I told you, dog is really spelled d-a-w-g. Didn't you go to school?"
 
Heard the rent-a-cop and a checker at Food 4 Less have a 5 minute conversation about ounces after he looked at his water bottle and asked her how much a fluid oz was compared to a regular oz. Not really that stupid of a question to me as I can see some people not understanding. But them discussing it for 5 minutes was hilarious. I wanted to chime in, but they seemed intent on figuring it out on their own I just let them be.
 
Originally posted by: QueBert
Heard the rent-a-cop and a checker at Food 4 Less have a 5 minute conversation about ounces after he looked at his water bottle and asked her how much a fluid oz was compared to a regular oz. Not really that stupid of a question to me as I can see some people not understanding. But them discussing it for 5 minutes was hilarious. I wanted to chime in, but they seemed intent on figuring it out on their own I just let them be.
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Thats a fairly good indication our public schools arent doing the best job.
Not that they always can. Some of them are seriously underfunded, I get that. But when I hear stuff like that it makes me glad I wen to a better-than-average public school.
 
Back in the mid '60's, at the height of the Honda 50 craze, there were tons of places where you could rent one for the day for cheap.

My friend Scott Hanlin had access to his big brother's drivers license, so we'd hoof it over to one place and he'd rent one, then we both get on it and ride to another place and I'd rent a second one and we'd boogie for the day.

So, once we're standing next to the obese middle age woman sitting on one all poised to roll out into heavy traffic and she turns to the sales guy and asks him where reverse is.

I hope God had mercy on her dumbass soul. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Back in the mid '60's, at the height of the Honda 50 craze, there were tons of places where you could rent one for the day for cheap.

My friend Scott Hanlin had access to his big brother's drivers license, so we'd hoof it over to one place and he'd rent one, then we both get on it and ride to another place and I'd rent a second one and we'd boogie for the day.

So, once we're standing next to the obese middle age woman sitting on one all poised to roll out into heavy traffic and she turns to the sales guy and asks him where reverse is.

I hope God had mercy on her dumbass soul. 😛
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1. It's amazing that you were a youngster in the 60's
2. There were fat people back then? No wai!
 
Here's a good one for everyone, it wasn't overheard, it was a conversation my mum had with a bank teller at Bank of America a year or two back. She them relayed the story to me that evening.

So to set the scene we're a British family who have lived in the United States for almost 6 years now (don't get me started on all the other ridiculous stuff we've heard (including "We don't want to vacation in London because we're worried we'll get killed as it's such a dangerous city compared to anywhere in America")). This takes place the week of Thanksgiving, like the Tuesday or Wednesday beforehand. My mum was at BoA because she had to transfer some money to a bank account in France. She's finalising the transaction with the teller and asks "So how long is that likely to take before the money is in the other account?". To which the teller replies with "Well everything is done at our end, so it just depends on how long they take off for Thanksgiving".



Just in case anyone doesn't quite get it:
Nowhere else in the world celebrates the American holiday of Thanksgiving
 
When I called Loma University Hospital, I told the receptionist I was calling from Alaska. Before she transferred me, I overhear her ask someone else what country is Alaska in. Then she transferred me to the International Admissions office.

I knew I reached the wrong department, but I left a message anyways. An hour or two later, I get a call back from that department, had a good laugh when I told her the story, and she transferred me over to the correct office. Makes me wonder...
 
I worked at a bakery for my first full time job. The got a counter girl once that was dumb as a rock. One day she was arguing with a customer over change. The customer was using the correct form of 100=$1, she was using the time method, where 60=the whole number :^D
 
Don't stand in front of the microwave when it's cooking, you'll get cancer
Eating too much microwaved goods will give you cancer
Don't sleep in the same room with a running computer, there's lots of negative energy that will give you health problems
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: mortong
Two guys at a store discussing a "Big Dawg" tee-shirt.

One guy is pointing to it telling his friend, "See, I told you, dog is really spelled d-a-w-g. Didn't you go to school?"
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You might wanna take this class...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsa70H-Hks
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Wow... with limited information you jump right to conclusions. Nice.

I wish there was truth to your comment, but no. These guys... well, there were some other clues that they weren't the smartest guys ever. The dog/dawg argument got rather heated, and I thought might come to blows.
 
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